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   G 12   Gavrilov M.G.  /  Zviozdnyj Mir: Sbornik zadach po astronomii
          i kosmicheskoj fizike. Chast' IV. Olimpiady N N Ts. - Cherno-
          golovka, 1998. - 100 pages. 


            Competitions for young amateur astronomers, called "Olympiads", 
       are carried out in Russia for many years. The aim of these 
       competitions is to stimulate intellectual curiosity and identify 
       clever high school students oriented toward natural sciences.
            More than 500 problems of various Olympiads on astronomy and 
       space physics are collected in a few volumes of the book. Here is 
       volume IV - problems of the Olympiads of Scientific Centre in 
       Chernogolovka (former Noginsk Scientific Centre).
            We are ready to collaborate with enthusiasts of the astronomy 
       and physics competitions all over the world.


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       Critique by:  Prof. Dr. Anatoly V. Zasov,
                     Dr. Vladimir G. Surdin.




                                                    ©   M.G.Gavrilov, 1998

                               INTRODUCTION

            Olympiad for high schools students is one  of  interes- 
       ting traditions of Chernogolovka: a small picturesque villa- 
       ge not far from Moscow, in which the  Scientific  Center  of 
       the Russian Academy of Sciences is  situated.  It  has  been 
       held yearly for more than 25 years now on a more or less re- 
       gular basis. The main participants of the Olympiad are  stu- 
       dents of the last 4 forms of Russian schools, i.e.  aged  14 
       to 17. The Olympiad is not only for those living in  Cherno- 
       golovka. In 1991 the list of contestants, for  example,  in- 
       cluded people from more than 50 towns and cities of about 20 
       regions of North and Central Russia, Latvia and Estonia.
            Most of young people participating in the various types 
       of Olympiads are interested in Science and think about it as 
       their future. They want to learn as much as  possible  about 
       the advantages and disadvantages of the profession of Scien- 
       tist. The main idea we are pursuing in arranging the Olympi- 
       ad of Scientific Centre is to create an  imitation  of  real 
       everyday work of a scientist.
            The scientific problems are, as a rule, less formal and 
       fairly difficult. It may be not accurately formulated  task, 
       where one knows what he has got to find, but a  whole  story 
       (as real as our life is), from which the participant has  to 
       "single out" the problem, ignoring all surplus  information. 
       The student's job is to formulate the problem more accurate- 
       ly, create the model and support it with arguments, find re- 
       asonable approximations, show which effects can be neglected 
       and which cannot, and so on.
            See also about olympiads
                                      http://www.issp.ac.ru/univer/

Some problems (in Russian):

        339. - 344.
        380. - 400.

You may buy the book, the following astronomers are responsible:
   in Moscow: SAI MSU (EAAS secretary V.L.Staerman or in the library)
   in Petersburg:      B.B.Eskin
   in Kazan':          G.V.Zhukov

   in Yaroslavl':      N.K.Mal'shakova
   in Belgorod:        G.D.Korneeva
   in Ukhta:           S.F.Zaikin
   in Syktyvkar:       V.P.Kondratjev
   in Nalchik:         M.V.Barekova
   in Crimea:       settelemnt Nauchnyj:
                       G.V.Borisov (Crimean Lab of SAI MSU)
                       CrAO library
   in Chernogolovka:     autor